A Chinese-based Jewish living in Hawaii, the most happy man in America

Every day over 1,000 randomly chosen adults in the United States are called and health condition, emotional state, satisfaction with work, stress, eating habits etc.Quality of lifeQuestionnaire survey on various items related toGallup-Healthways Well-Being IndexAccording to the most happy state in the United StatesHawaii, The state with the lowest happiness isWest VirginiaAnd that. Alvin Wong, a 69-year-old Chinese American living in Hawaii, has also been found statistically "should be the happiest in America".

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Hawaii No. 1 in U. S. for Wellbeing, and West Virginia Last

As a result of indexing the "happiness degree" of residents based on telephone survey, the state where the most happy people in the United States live in 2010 is Hawaii, the followingWyoming·North Dakota·Alaska·ColoradoAnd continue.


The lowest degree of happiness of residents wasWest Virginia. Less thanKentucky·Mississippi·Arkansas·AlabamaHas become the worst 5 in 2010.


"Happy state" in the western part and "not happy state" in the south seem to be concentrated.


People who answered "I laughed yesterday" on the day when I was surveyed by telephone are many who have married or cohabiting partners and that people in their twenties are more likely to smile than in their 40s. On the other hand, the percentage of people who said "Yesterday was a sad feeling" is a person living separately, age group of 45 to 64 years old. Looking at gender and race, it seems that there are more women than "men" who smiled and "sad people", and that there are more Hispanics than white people, it means that the expression of emotions is rich.


According to Gallup 's survey, men are more "happier" than women, and older people tend to be happier than middle - aged people. From the survey results of 2010, when we comprehensively compare elements that were highly correlated with "Happiness", "A Jewish elder who is a tall Asian American guy who adheres to the precepts, married over 65 years old, has children, He lives in Hawaii, is self-employed, and annual salary is over 120 thousand dollars (about 987 thousand yen) "It is said that" the most happy person in the United States image "was highlighted.

It was 69-year-old living in Honolulu, a wife's childhood with a height of 5 feet 10 inches (about 178 cm), a Jewish Chinese-American Alvin Wong who runs a healthcare company.

Alvin Wong and his wife Trudy Schandler-Wong.


It is Mr. Wong that should be "happy as picture" on the data, but how is it actually? Mr. Wong, who was informed by phone that he was "the happiest person in America" ​​and said, "I am surely a very happy person, the secret is probably" I can not laugh at myself " It will be in the creed that life will be something unpleasant. "... What is this mischief?